Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
SOCRATESTo move the world we must move ourselves.
More Socrates Quotes
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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